Worst part is he's the sysadmin
flashgnash
joined 2 years ago
Ahhh my bad I didn't read your comment properly, assumed you meant with a desktop running already
I'm not planning on getting the GPU anyway, most of my work is done from a terminal and a browser in a lightweight window manager, as long as the integrated graphics can handle that it'll be fine
I'd love to be able to ditch the gui entirely, I've found working from a TTY really helps me focus on the actual work I'm supposed to be doing
Unfortunately the one impossible hurdle is the web browser. Have kinda got around the need for it mostly with an llm cli for basic questions but will always find myself needing to fire up a window manager just to get a browser eventually
Also doesn't help that I'm primarily a web developer
Starting Firefox takes 5 seconds? I start thinking I need to optimise if it takes more than 2
Ah that is irritating, I tend to have my ThinkPad on my lap every now and again and it's usually because it's in a public place without a desk. Would be pretty annoying for the fan to suddenly go crazy in public
Fair enough. Got a colleague who sudo nanos everything then wonders why he keeps getting permission denied errors later lol
I do find it crazy that despite all the technological advancement to save everyone time we just ended up spending all that free time working
Doesn't work, I've already spent ages trying to get this to work properly and have basically just given up at this point.
I don't mind waiting for it to recover from hibernation, I only hibernate it once or twice a day anyway
No issues with battery life or fan noise? That's what I'm hearing from others
Entirely fair I am a nerd
My experience of Linux has been that it needs a certain amount of tinkering to function properly and my experience of people who make statements about supported configurations is that they are not willing to put up with that
Agree with that windows is a horrible user experience by comparison but it's the most likely to just work and be supportable
Hm, I think I need to try and track down someone local who's got one and see for myself to be honest, I would guess places like pc world won't have tester models